Rewiring democracy

This episode features an OG in the world of internet security, the Godfather of Cybersecurity, Bruce Schneier.

Bruce describes himself as a public interest technologist, and has done many things under that banner - run companies, lectured at Harvard, testified before Congress, authored over a dozen books, and written a blog for over 20 years that has more than 250k regular readers - to name just a few.

Key topics:

- The need for better technical minds in policy making

- The implications of AI for democracy (not as bleak as you might expect - Bruce’s new book Rewiring Democracy goes deep on the emerging implications and he remains largely optimistic)

- Why the internet was not designed with security in mind

- Why prompt injection makes AI applications inherently insecure for high stakes tasks

- Threat modelling for personal security in an age of geopolitics

You can find Bruce at www.schneier.com